Paper Info
Title
The buggy side of code refactoring: understanding the relationship between refactorings and bugs.
Abstract
Code refactoring is widely practiced by software developers. There is an explicit assumption that code refactoring improves the structural quality of a software project, thereby also reducing its bug proneness. However, refactoring is often applied with different purposes in practice. Depending on the complexity of certain refactorings, developers might unconsciously make the source code more susceptible to have bugs. In this paper, we present a longitudinal study of 5 Java open source projects, where 20,689 refactorings, and 1,033 bug reports were analyzed. We found that many bugs are introduced in the refactored code as soon as the first immediate change is made on it. Furthermore, code elements affected by refactorings performed in conjunction with other changes are more prone to have bugs than those affected by pure refactorings.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
ICSE (Companion Volume)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5663-3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Isabella Ferreira100.68
Eduardo Fernandes2286.70
Diego Cedrim3292.15
Anderson G. Uchôa400.34
Ana Carla Bibiano500.34
Alessandro Garcia62231143.70
João Correia778.81
Filipe Santos800.34
Gabriel Nunes900.34
Caio Barbosa1001.35
Baldoino Fonseca1110316.57
Rafael Maiani de Mello127110.47